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The Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee will be hearing a bill that seeks to legalize Assisted Suicide in Rhode Island, the so-called "Lila Manfield Sapinsley Compassionate Care Act" (2023-H5210), on Wednesday, March 22 beginning at 4 p.m. in the House Lounge of the State House. Please take action now!

PROVIDENCE — On Monday, March 6, members of the House Judiciary Committee met to discuss two bills of particular interest to the pro-life community. H-5006, popularly known as the Equality in Abortion Coverage Act, first proposed on January 6, seeks to expand who can qualify for Medicaid, as well as to expand upon Medicaid coverage and insurance for state employees to include various forms of prenatal, postpartum and other maternity-related medical care, including abortion.

Pregnancy centers and maternity homes generally agree that making childbirth free in the United States would empower women to choose life. But, some specify, it would help in varying degrees.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION TODAY! The Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee will be hearing the so-called "Equality in Abortion Coverage Act" (2023-H5006) on Monday, March 6 beginning at 2:00 PM in Room 35 (Lower Level) of the State House. The bill will allow state taxpayer-funding for abortion-on-demand in Rhode Island, both through the state-managed Medicaid program and through state employees health benefits programs, by removing statutory prohibitions thereupon that have been in place since the seventies. Please keep in mind that these prohibitions already permit state funding for abortions performed in the cases of rape, incest, life of mother.

Taxpayer dollars should NOT pay for abortion. The majority of Americans agree with this - both Democrats and Republicans. For over 45 years, the Hyde amendment and similar laws have protected taxpayers from being forced to pay for elective abortion. The Hyde amendment has been signed into law every year since 1976, whether Congress and the White House were led by Republicans or Democrats. The Hyde Amendment has saved over 2.4 million babies and mothers in difficult circumstances from the tragedy of abortion. A strong majority of Americans, including women and men across a range of income levels and racial diversity, support the Hyde Amendment and laws that prevent government-funded abortion. We urge you, in the strongest possible terms, to ensure that the Hyde Amendment and all similar life-saving appropriations riders remain in place. Do not force Americans to subsidize the taking of innocent life. Oppose any bill, including any appropriations bill, that expands taxpayer funding of abortion. Add your name to the petition!

As individuals, we are called to observe this day through the penitential practices of prayer, fasting and/or giving alms. (Note: this day of prayer is usually celebrated on Jan. 22, since it falls on a Sunday in 2023, we mark it Jan. 23)

In the last election abortion was on the ballot in several states. In many cases pro-life legislation failed to pass. For example, in Kentucky, which consistently votes Republican, an amendment to the U.S. Constitution denying the right to abortion in all cases failed to pass. Polling suggests that many Americans agree with having some restrictions on abortion, but not outright banning it.

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From Wed., Sept. 28 through Sun., Nov. 6 we'll hold 40 days of peaceful, prayerful vigils and Rosaries for life and for an end to abortion at the public right-of-way outside 175 Broad St., Providence. 40 Days held in collaboration with RI Right to Life. Learn more or sign up now!

This year, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities invites Catholics to “practice radical solidarity and unconditional love” for pregnant and parenting mothers...

Meet us Sat., Sept. 24 at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick Church, 244 Smith St., Providence. Together we will walk to the RI State House and prayerfully walk around it three times for life. This event is the kick-off to our 40 Days for Life Fall 2022 campaign and is in collaboration with RI Right to Life.

Register now to attend Bishop Tobin's annual Human Life Guild Day, Sat., Oct. 1 at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Providence. The day begins with Holy Mass with Bishop Tobin, then brunch and three nationally known speakers. Click for more and/or to register.

As Catholics approach the polls, we are asked to weigh many important issues...

PROVIDENCE — Indicating that 70% of Rhode Islanders support abortion rights, Gov. Daniel McKee signed into effect an executive order on July 5 declaring Rhode Island to be a sanctuary state for out of state persons seeking abortion.

Use of taxpayer dollars for abortions, legalized assisted suicide fail to advance

“The majority in the House of Representatives voted last Friday to pass the most unjust and extreme abortion on demand bill our nation has ever seen. Answering the needs of women by promoting taxpayer-funded elective abortion, as this bill would do, is a grave evil and a failure to love and serve women. Offering free or low-cost abortions, instead of increasing the resources women need to care for themselves and their children, is not ‘choice’ but coercion and callous abandonment. Simply repeating the mantra that abortion is healthcare doesn’t make it so. Deliberately ending the lives of defenseless and voiceless human beings is the antithesis of healthcare....

In response to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has scheduled another House vote to try to enshrine abortion on demand in federal law through the so-called Women’s Health Protection Act, H.R. 8296. The vote will be held TODAY. Click now to take action!

June 24, 2022, was an important day in our nation’s history. On that day the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade....

WASHINGTON (Catholic News Service) — In a 6-3 decision June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its nearly 50-year-old decision in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion in this country.

The Catholic Church has been clear and consistent in teaching that abortion is a grave moral evil. The Second Vatican Council decreed that abortion is an “unspeakable crime.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church insists that “human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception...Direct abortion is gravely contrary to the moral law.” In recent years, all of the popes have spoken clearly in condemning abortion. Pope Francis has said, simply and powerfully, “Abortion is murder.”